LEE’S SUMMIT, MISSOURI, USA AND MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (PRWEB) JULY 18, 2017. Lynxspring, Inc., a premier developer and provider of open, IoT solutions for intelligent buildings, energy management, and device-to-enterprise integration, and Conserve It Pty Ltd, a leading supplier, developer and distributor of industrial and building automation products, solutions and services, today announced a new partnership and strategic relationship to distribute and provide Building, Industrial, Energy Management and IoT Solutions to the Australian, New Zealand and Asia Pacific markets.

Conserve It has joined Lynxspring’s Distributor and Innovation Partner program. Through this partnership, Conserve It will expand the market-reach of Lynxspring’s recently announced portfolio of JENEsys® Edge™ IoT Controllers, based on the Niagara Framework®, and Lynxspring’s series of Bridges, Gateways and Data Pumps based on their Onyxx® hardware platform. These solutions deliver new edge connectivity, interoperability, data access and analytics for today’s buildings, energy management, industrial and IoT applications.

As part of the partnership agreement, Conserve It will be re-branding Lynxspring’s hardware by releasing the JENEsys Edge 534 IoT Controllers as the CI-534-N4 and porting Niagara 4 onto it, and releasing the Onyxx XM 34IO and Onyxx XM 34IO-B as the CI-XM34IO and CI-XM34IO-B, specifically for the Australian, New Zealand and Asia Pacific markets.

The partnership reflects a shared commitment to deliver simplified, flexible, and high-performance solutions that will provide customers faster time-to-application value with reduced operating costs.
“Partnering with Lynxspring expands Conserve It’s strategy to deliver a variety of solutions and service choices to our customers,” said Chirayu Shah, Conserve It’s General Manager. ”We are excited about collaborating with Lynxspring to leverage the full power of their technology and product portfolio to deliver actionable insight and control to optimize building operations, equipment lifetime, energy management and performance.”

“Together Lynxspring and Conserve It are co-innovating in the intelligent building and equipment environment to address edge control and access to data for today’s increasingly IoT-enabled building and smart equipment landscape,” said Marc Petock, Lynxspring’s Chief Communications Officer and Vice President, Marketing. “With this partnership, Lynxspring will further extend the availability of our edge and IoT solutions that enable owners and operators to manage their buildings and equipment efficiently all the while conserving resources and energy.”

About Conserve It

Conserve It and their team of certified and trained engineers and technicians provides complete end-to-end HVAC&R plant management. This includes Monitoring, Reporting and Controls, Energy Management Consulting and distribution of industrial and building automation products and sensors from leading international suppliers worldwide. For more information about Conserve It, visit http://www.conserveit.com.au.
About Lynxspring

Embracing open software and hardware platforms, Lynxspring develops, manufactures and distributes edge-to-enterprise solutions and IoT technology for today’s intelligent buildings, energy management, and equipment control and specialty machine-to-machine applications in IoT environments. Lynxspring’s technologies simplify connectivity, integration, interoperability and data accuracy and exchange from the edge to the enterprise. For more information about Lynxspring, visit http://www.lynxspring.com.

The $3/$30/$300 sq ft rule was the predominant theme in the June, 2016 edition of Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings. Brad White, SES Consulting, offers yet another compelling economic case for directing more of our efforts to the $300 variable in the equation. A 5% improvement in productivity represents a tremendous savings, while making employees more comfortable and our buildings better. Truly, an emerging trend as IoT delivers more relevant contextualization into the Building Renaissance and the Smart, Connected, and Intelligent Building formula.

From Brad White: If you had $3-$5 million to invest into a 50,000 sq ft office building could you significantly reduce energy consumption, improve space utilization, and increase worker productivity?

It recently occurred to me that buildings play an outsized role in our economy. In developed countries, a majority of economic activity happens entirely within the walls of commercial and institutional buildings. The fact that I’ve been working in the building sector for my entire professional career and this only recently occurred to me is slightly embarrassing. Another fact that most of us know all too well is that most buildings don’t operate nearly as well as they could, and that this has very real impacts on everything from energy use to occupant comfort. Put these two things together and you start to realize that there is a huge economic opportunity in making existing buildings better.

How much opportunity you ask? I find it is useful to use a tangible example to get a sense of the scale of the opportunity. If we took a typical 50,000 sq ft office building and apply the trusty 3 – 30 – 300 rule (which corresponds approximately to energy – rent – payroll in $/sq ft/year) you end up with a total expenditure of just over $16.5 million/year. If we could reduce energy consumption by 50%, improve space utilization by 10%, and improve worker productivity by 5% that represents an economic benefit equal to $1 million/year. If you’re willing to accept a payback in the 3 – 5 year range, that gives you $3 – $5 million to work with. This is a far cry from the slice of $3/sq ft that we’re often trying to use to justify investments in building upgrades, with the benefits to occupants considered at best a bonus or side benefit, rather than the main driver.

If you scale this example up to cover all of the commercial buildings in the US and Canada, you end up with a number around $1 Trillion. A trillion dollars is a hard number to get your head around. Usually we only consider numbers that large in the context of the GDP of major economies and financial system bailouts. In this case, a trillion dollars investment in our buildings buys you a happier, healthier, more productive workforce while achieving a significant reduction in environmental impact and greenhouse gas emissions. Certainly, much more money than this has been spent with much fewer positive outcomes to show for it.

To bring this back to a more manageable context and reframe it a little bit, if you had $3-$5 million to invest into a 50,000 sq ft office building could you significantly reduce energy consumption, improve space utilization, and increase worker productivity? I certainly believe this is possible and I hope to use the rest of this article to convince you that the opportunity is real and achievable today, or at least that it’s not entirely hogwash. The path to these outcomes is certainly not straightforward and requires pulling together many different components like deploying IOT and other smart building technologies, lighting upgrades, space planning, renewable energy, training and occupant engagement while also overcoming significant institutional obstacles.